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Schizophrenia (Angry, Possibly Confused, and Unpredictable Disorder)

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Updated and Verified: October 05, 2024 (News page records significant changes.)

This page contains nonpartisan evidence-based science and education about her metabolism, specifically about schizophrenia. All factual points are fully referenced, with citations to either or both (a) leading scholars and experts in relevant fields, and (b) data and analysis in leading peer-reviewed academic publications in relevant fields.

Psychiatric Diagnosis: Stigma Arbitrary, Unscientific - and Harmful to Her Metabolism

Schizophrenia is a psychiatric diagnosis of mental-illness by the ideology of psychiatry, which is a form of slavery. Also, psychiatry is entirely arbitrary and subjective. To decide on a psychiatric diagnosis, psychiatrists and other clinicians rely completely on arbitrary measures based on their own intuition and subjective judgment, according leading psychiatrist Dr. Thomas Insel.1 Thus, psychiatric diagnoses, and the mental-illnesses that they allegedly treat, are unscientific social inventions with no basis in objective reality - biologic or otherwise. According to leading psychiatrist Dr. Thomas Szasz (1920-2012), diagnoses for mental-illness are simply social stigmatization.2 One of the best-established psychosocial pathogenic vectors is that stigma harms her metabolism.3 Therefore, it is reasonable to infer that the stigma of psychiatry generally tends to harm her metabolism.

Psychiatry: Big (Arbitrary, Unscientific) Business

Leading clinicians have presented evidence and analysis that would reasonably suggest that the millionaires and billionaires of the psychiatry industry (the psychiatry-government-complex) have made mountains of money by echoing various vague, unhelpful, arbitrary, intuitive, subjective, socially invented, unscientific - abusive - psychiatric diagnoses.4-8

Schizophrenia: An Example of Psychiatry's Arbitrary and Unscientific Metabolic Harm

Schizophrenia is one example of the metabolic harm that routinely arises by the arbitrary and unscientific ideology of psychiatry. Instead of the unscientific term schizophrenia, one can use the simple, helpful, reasonable, and accurate term angry, possibly confused, and unpredictable disorder.9 Thus, analysis of angry, possibly confused, and unpredictable disorder suffices when considering psychiatry's unscientific, ideological, and abusive diagnosis of schizophrenia.

Criteria to Diagnose Schizophrenia

It may seem ridiculous to distill supposed schizophrenia as angry, possibly confused, and unpredictable disorder. Yet, one need only consider some of the unscientific, arbitrary, and abusive criteria to diagnose schizophrenia, according to the ideology of psychiatry:

Obviously, only an unscientific control-freak would use the above criteria to stigmatize a person as having a mental disorder. Equally obvious is that schizophrenia, as defined by the ideologues of psychiatry who define it, amounts to nothing scientific at all: just the arbitrary and abusive stigmatization of women and girls who supposedly suffer from the mental illness of angry, possibly confused, and unpredictable disorder. And again: stigma routinely harms her metabolism.3

Evaluating Credibility: Psychiatrists Who Diagnose Supposed Schizophrenia - Are Routinely Suicidal

One would hardly trust a scrawny or obese chef, nor trust a baby sitter whose siblings hate her - because by their works, we know them. Much less can one reasonably trust an ideology whose miserable leaders routinely kill themselves. Psychiatry is just such an ideology. Indeed, the ideology of psychiatry has an ongoing epidemic of suicide - among the psychiatrists, themselves.10 Obviously, no good counseling about how to live and act could ever come from someone who cannot even nearly manage their own life. Thus, it is reasonable to dismiss suicidal psychiatrists as unreasonable, unhelpful - and dangerous.

Summary of Schizophrenia's Metabolic Harms

Schizophrenia is a psychiatric diagnosis of supposed mental illness. As indicated above: to decide on a psychiatric diagnosis psychiatrists and other clinicians rely completely on arbitrary measures based on their own intuition and subjective judgment.1-2,4-8 Thus, schizophrenia is an unscientific and abusive social stigma with no basis in objective reality - biologic or otherwise. And abusive stigma routinely harms her metabolism.3

Addendum: Schizophrenia as a Tool for Sloth and Gaslighting

As mentioned above, schizophrenia, like all other supposed mental illnesses, is not based on objective reality whatsoever. Given that fact, and considering the criteria above to diagnose supposed schizophrenia, one can reasonably infer the potential for a diagnosis of schizophrenia to amount to nothing but the gaslighting of a victim. Indeed, like the equally fraudulent diagnosis hysteria, schizophrenia has a history as a tool for bad people to medicalize the abuse of their victim. For example, psychiatrist Dr. E. Fuller Torrey, a leading researcher of schizophrenia, has presented evidence, for the better part of a century, that schizophrenia is routinely tossed out as a lazy diagnosis in place of any holistic focus on her actual problems - metabolic or otherwise.11 Torrey pointed out the financial incentive to overdiagnose:

This enables psychiatrists to seek insurance reimbursement for psychotherapy sessions for individuals with problems of living, personality disorders, and substance abuse problems, for which there is no evidence that they are brain diseases [brain disease being the kind that psychiatry claims to treat].12 (p. 398)

Torrey also notes the soviet political tactic of weaponizing schizophrenia diagnoses to discredit each other.12

References

References

  1. Chauvin JJ, Insel TR. Building the Thermometer for Mental Health. Cerebrum: the Dana Forum on Brain Science. 2018;2018:cer-14-18. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6353119/
  2. Szasz T. The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct. 2nd ed. Harper & Row; 1974.
  3. Tomiyama AJ, Carr D, Granberg EM, et al. How and why weight stigma drives the obesity epidemic and harms health. BMC Med. 2018;16:123. http://doi.org/doi:10.1186/s12916-018-1116-5
  4. Szasz T. The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays. Syracuse University Press; 2007.
  5. Baughman FA. The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes “Patients” of Normal Children. Trafford; 2006.
  6. Horwitz AV, Wakefield JC. The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder. Oxford University Press; 2007.
  7. Paris J. Overdiagnosis in Psychiatry: How Modern Psychiatry Lost Its Way While Creating a Diagnosis for Almost All of Life’s Misfortunes. Oxford University Press; 2015.
  8. Frances A. Saving Normal: An Insider’s Revolt against out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life. William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins publishers; 2013.
  9. American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. 5th ed; 2013.
  10. Li T, Petrik ML, Freese RL, Robiner WN. Suicides of psychologists and other health professionals: National Violent Death Reporting System data, 2003–2018. Am Psychol. 2022;77(4):551-564. http://doi.org/doi:10.1037/amp0001000
  11. Torrey EF. The Death of Psychiatry. Penguin Books; 1975.
  12. Torrey EF. Psychiatric fraud and force: A reply to Szasz. J Humanist Psychol. 2005;45(3):397-402. http://doi.org/doi:10.1177/0022167805277108

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